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With chick lit novels popping up on every bestseller list, millions of readers are all thinking the same thing: I could write this stuff and never go back to the office again! And here’s the guide that will show you how. Bestselling novelist Sarah Mlynowski and veteran chick lit editor Farrin Jacobs cover every stage of developing and selling your novel, with chapters on:

Developing an idea
Deciding on a point of view
Making your characters likable
Learning the basics of plotting, pacing, and conflict
Finding an agent
This book also features humorous tips and advice from scores of established writers (including Meg Cabot, Melissa Senate, and Sophie Kinsella). If you’ve got stories to tell, See Jane Write will take care of the rest!

SARAH MLYNOWSKI is the author of Fishbowl, As Seen on TV, Monkey Business, Me vs. Me, Bras & Broomsticks, and Frogs & French Kisses and coeditor of the bestselling chick lit anthologies Girls’ Night In and Girls’ Night Out. Her first novel, Milkrun, sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide. She lives in New York City.

FARRIN JACOBS is a former chick lit editor for Red Dress Ink.

If you’re a fan of amigurumi, you already know that super-sweet crocheted bunnies and kitties and pandas have taken the indie craft world by storm. Well, the dolls in Creepy Cute Crochet eat your typical amigurumi for breakfast. This unique craft book contains more than 20 patterns for zombies, ninjas, Vikings, vampires, aliens, robots, and even Death himself. Each easy-to-follow pattern is presented with step-by-step diagrams, hilarious commentary, and full-color photographs of the creatures in their natural environments. Plus each pattern is ranked according to difficulty so that even beginners can share in the fun.

The scary-cute photographs, accessible text, and illustrated patterns are sure to be a hit with indie crafters, angsty teens, and hip moms everywhere.

CHRISTEN HADEN, a.k.a. NeedleNoodles, is a crafting dynamo who lives in Virginia.

Quirk’s Amazing Magical Wonder Deck charmed amateur and professional magicians with its gorgeous aesthetic and fiendishly clever card tricks. Now these same readers can experience a complete course in magic with Mysterio’s Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring—a giant compilation of more than 300 tricks and variations.

Here are illustrated step-by-step instructions for rope tricks, money magic, mind-reading effects, stage illusions, everyday magic, and plenty of all-new card tricks. Readers will learn how to bend spoons, stretch handkerchiefs, levitate glassware, make small children disappear, shuffle playing cards with aplomb, and much more—everything from simple street-magic effects to epic on-stage illusions. Mysterio’s Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring is a beautifully designed reference for magicians of all ages and abilities.

GABE FAJURI is an associate editor of Magic, the world’s leading trade journal for magicians. He also publishes scholarly titles on the subject of conjuring. He lives in Chicago.

Open this wicked little volume for a spellbinding collection of dark arts and crafts! It’s full of color photos and simple illustrated instructions for crafting everyday items into wonderfully witchy treats:

    * A truly wicked charm bracelet made from a handful of old trinkets
    * Spooky little skulls made out of marshmallows
    * A bewitching midnight black tutu that can be stitched up in minutes
    * A wicked poison apple fashioned from an everyday plushie
    * Witches, monsters, spiders, and ghosts to top your cupcakes
    * And much, much more!

Each step-by-step project is as easy as the wave of a wand-no previous crafting experience required!

MARGARET McGUIRE edits and moonlights as a crafter in Philadelphia. ALICIA KACHMAR casts spells and stitches from her home in New York.